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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Viewer Rating
Rating: 6.6
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark poster

Overview

Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.


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Bias Dimensions

Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate

Overview

Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.


Starring Cast


Where to watch

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Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Center

Primary

The film's central narrative revolves around universal themes of fear, the power of stories, and confronting personal demons, using the politically charged 1968 era as an atmospheric backdrop rather than a source of explicit ideological commentary.

The movie features visible diversity within its main cast, including a prominent Hispanic character, without explicitly recasting traditionally white roles. Its narrative primarily focuses on supernatural horror and does not center on or explicitly critique traditional identities, maintaining a neutral to traditional framing.

Secondary

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark does not include any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative centers on a group of heterosexual teenagers, and queer identities or experiences are not depicted or referenced in any capacity throughout the film.

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The narrative centers on horror elements and the fears of its teenage protagonists, without incorporating any aspects of transsexual identity or experience.

The film's female characters, primarily Stella Nicholls and Ruth Steinburg, are protagonists who are terrorized by supernatural entities. Their roles involve investigation, escape, and survival rather than direct physical combat. There are no scenes where a female character defeats one or more male opponents in close-quarters physical combat.

The film adapts various short stories and monsters from the source material. While some monsters are grotesque, none of the named characters or significant entities established with a specific gender in the original books are portrayed as a different gender in the movie.

The film introduces original main characters for its overarching plot. Characters adapted from the source material (short stories) did not have a canonically established race that was altered in the film.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

6.6

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

IMDB logo
6.2
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6.5

Critic Ratings

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7.8
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6.1

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